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Spinal cord injury affects 17,000 Americans and 700,000 people worldwide each year. A research team at NeuroPair, Inc. won the Grand Prize in the 2023 Create the Future Design Contest for a revolutionary approach to spinal cord repair. In this Here’s an Idea podcast episode, Dr. Johannes Dapprich, NeuroPair’s CEO and founder, discusses their groundbreaking approach that addresses a critical need in the medical field, offering a fast and minimally invasive solution to a long-standing problem.
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Stemming from the lack of facilities during the ongoing COVID-19 crisis in our country, we aimed to design a ventilator that’s easy and cheap to setup, easy to maintain, and can support as many people as possible. We, as a team, took this initiative back in May, when we first designed it using a manual hand driven system.
This device is an intubation tube with gold electrodes in his surface, level of the vocal chords, two electrodes for each vocal cord, these electrodes get connected with gold cables to electromyography that generates the electrical pulses. We can stimulate each vocal cord in individual way or both.
Laminar is a reusable toothpaste tube that can be infinitely refilled with your favorite toothpaste.
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The tube is both fluoride and dishwasher safe and is designed to work as a traditional syringe. After you have emptied your tube, you take it to your local drug store or pharmacy, plug it into a refill station,
Manaola Innovations aims to solve the problem of lack of modern technological intervention in many medical devices, particularly the gait trainer. Gait trainers currently on the market are often bulky, uncomfortable, and hardly customizable. This hinders the quality of life for the individuals reliant on these products to function in their daily lives. To solve this problem , Manaola Innovations, Inc.
This drive mechanism does not use chaindrive or shaftdrive but has efficiency as chaindrive (in terms of gear teeth engagement) and requires less frequent maintenance. It also provides gear ratio.
Basic idea: Use internally toothed gear to rotate the hub of the wheel. It also uses part of rotation energy of the wheel for anti-tipping mechanism.
Drive mechanism,
Axial engine is important for various application like power generation aircraft propulsion. Axial engines like Duke engine requires more than five cylinders. construction is complicated and bulky for small power applications.
Provide an e-vehicle conversion kit using my patented (US Patent 9,124,144 B2) dual radial gap, high-power density, low RPM DC electric motor in a direct drive application to convert conventional IC powered vehicles to full electric power. These kits can be configured to provide direct drive power to any front or rear drive vehicle.
The reduced rate of healing for chronic wounds affects the quality of life of the patients and leads to significant socio-economic burden. These wounds do not heal in a timely and methodical manner and can lead to ulcers and other long-term effects. Repeated trauma,
Wankel type rotary engine is endoskeletal engine epitrochoidal piston housing in which lubrication is a major challenge and central shaft is continuously under high temperature. Among many disadvantages there is loss of fuel during rotary flame propagation. through sectoral chambers. Compression ratio is also low.
Every year, there are about 1.3 million road traffic fatalities, more than 50% of them pedestrians and vulnerable road users in an urban environment. Global efforts to reduce the number of pedestrians’ fatalities are struggling to achieve their goals. A major contributor to this problem is the global urbanization trend,
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